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The specific analogy to the dilemma of love is the problem of the `` breakthrough '' in the realm of art.
Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.
Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.
Although the Af calculation is obvious by analogy with that for gravitational field and osmotic pressure, it is interesting to confirm it by a method which can be generalized to include related effects.
This hypothesis is evolved in analogy to the demonstrated action of organic actives in detergency.
It is not a farfetched analogy to say that this is what Thomas did to poetry.
This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.
" His term for analogy is Latin analogia.
An analogy of proportion is therefore possible: " essence is related to existence as potency is related to act.
A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxy | galaxies with it, like spots on an inflating balloon.
One helpful analogy is that by creating multiple VLANs, the number of broadcast domains increases, but the size of each broadcast domain size decreases.
Burnt-in timecode ( often abbreviated to BITC by analogy to VITC ) is a human-readable on-screen version of the timecode information for a piece of material superimposed on a video image.
The analogy in the case of rotating bucket is that the element of water surface will " slide " up or down the surface unless the normal to the surface aligns with the vector resultant formed by the vector addition F < sub > g </ sub > + F < sub > Cfgl </ sub >.
In some situations where 4NT is a quantitative invitation, especially where 4 is a jump, many partnerships use the Gerber convention by some analogy to the Blackwood family: 4 asks for the number of aces or key cards.
To find out what the precise law is that applies to a particular set of facts, one has to locate precedential decisions on the topic, and reason from those decisions by analogy.
This analogy is extremely simplistic and incomplete: The rapid propagation of a sound wave does not impart any change in the air molecules ' drift velocity, whereas EM waves do carry the energy to propagate the actual current at a rate which is much, much higher than the electrons ' drift velocity.

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The FET is said to be in saturation mode ; some authors refer to it as active mode, for a better analogy with bipolar transistor operating regions.
Any linear-chain heteropolymer can be said to have a " primary structure " by analogy to the usage of the term for proteins, but this usage is rare compared to the extremely common usage in reference to proteins.
He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.
Weygand did this without any decree of Marshal Philippe Pétain's, " by analogy ," he said, " to the law about Higher Education ".
He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.
In Portrait of a Marxist as a Young Nun, Professor Helena Sheehan said that the analogy between commodity fetishism and religion is mistaken, because people do not worship money and commodities in the spiritual sense, by attributing to them supernatural powers.
Leonhard Euler once remarked that Le Sage's model was " infinitely better " than that of all other authors, and that all objections are balanced out in this model, but later he said the analogy to light had no weight for him, because he believed in the wave nature of light.
Detractors of this argument might point out that the same thing could be said about any concept-object relation, and that the brain-computer analogy can be a perfectly useful model if there is a strong isomorphism between the two.
By analogy, an étale presheaf is called a sheaf if it satisfies the same condition ( with intersections of open sets replaced by pullbacks of étale morphisms, and where a set of étale maps to U is said to cover U if the topological space underlying U is the union of their images ).
The spacetimes with purely space-like directions ( i. e., all positive definite ) are said to have Euclidean signature, while the spacetimes with signature ( i. e., ) are said to have Minkowskian signature in analogy to the Minkowski metric discussed above.
Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber said that Duceppe may have been overzealous, but Lapierre's Nazi analogy was inappropriate and such uses " have a tendency to minimize the horrors of Nazism ".
In the 20th century, Erving Goffman also followed a dramaturgical analogy in his seminal book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, in which he said, " All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify.
By analogy, any flag which has a central horizontal stripe that is half the height of the flag is sometimes said to have a Spanish fess.
In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy with the Washington Post, Gil Kerlikowske said the bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues.
Such cases are standardly said to have been created by analogy instead of by productive application of ablaut rules, though this may to some extent be begging the question.
While Donelly included some of her longtime lyrical allusions to nature imagery, such as bees and honey, in the songs recorded at the Vermont concerts, she said that some of her new material reflected a more direct approach, relying less on symbolic analogy.
Similarly, Vivekananda's teacher Ramakrishna Paramahansa, using an analogy said that man is like a cow tied to a pole with a rope — the karmic debts and human nature bind him and the amount of free will he has is analogous to the amount of freedom the rope allows ; as one progresses spiritually, the rope becomes longer.
He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.
Ryan Schneider, an employee of Insomniac, said, " The analogy that I like to use is that at Insomniac we like to look at it as how Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant act when it comes to their professions.
In 1994, McCartney said that the song merely epitomises the downfalls of life, being " my analogy for when something goes wrong out of the blue, as it so often does, as I was beginning to find out at that time in my life.
As an analogy, " warning shot " can be said of any action of declaration, especially a demonstration of power, intended or perceived as a last warning before hostile measures.
Ardent in his love of civil liberty, for the preservation of which blessing, I believe, he would as cheerfully have shed his blood as did Hampden or Sidney ; it was constitutional freedom that he venerated, not a republican and impracticable emancipation from limited monarchial government ... To Burke, Windham unquestionably bore some analogy ; and on his shoulders may be said to have descended the mantle of Burke ... Windham's talents, brilliant and various as they were, always however appeared to me more adapted to speculative, than to practical life.
Duschene makes this refer to a Bidding Litany to follow the Homily, but judging from the analogy of the Stowe Mass, which places a litany between the Epistle and Gospel, and of the Mozarabic, which on Sundays in Lent has a very similar litany between the Prophetical Lesson and the Epistle, said by the priest who " prosternat se ad pedem altaris ", it might be possible to understand " audita Apostoli praedicatione " to mean " after the Epistle ".

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This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.
As Aristotle offered the categories and the act of existence, and Aquinas the analogy of being, the rationalists also had their own system, the great chain of being, an interlocking hierarchy of beings from God to dust.
On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.
The analogy is made to locksmithing, specifically picking locks, which — aside from its being a skill with a fairly high tropism to ' classic ' hacking — is a skill which can be used for good or evil.
Lucretius uses the analogy of a vessel, stating that the physical body is the vessel that holds both the mind ( mens ) and spirit ( anima ) of a human being.
Plotinus uses the analogy of the Sun which emanates light indiscriminately without thereby diminishing itself, or reflection in a mirror which in no way diminishes or otherwise alters the object being reflected.
" American sociologist James Q. Wilson encapsulated this argument as the Broken Window Theory, which asserts that relatively minor problems left unattended ( such as litter, graffiti, or public urination by homeless individuals ) send a subliminal message that disorder in general is being tolerated, and as a result, more serious crimes will end up being committed ( the analogy being that a broken window left unrepaired shows an image of general dilapidation ).
By analogy, this episode of the myth was eventually equated with other interactions between a human and a being in the divine realm.
He suggests the following analogy: instead of being summoned into a room to observe a particular roll of the dice, we are told that we will be summoned into the room immediately after a roll of double sixes.
Thus Bak sida (), bak being a prefix when calling males, refers jokingly to a Westerner, by analogy to the Thai language were farang can mean both guava and Westerner.
This turbulent diffusion coefficient is defined in a phenomenological sense, by analogy with the molecular diffusivities, but it does not have a true physical meaning, being dependent on the flow conditions, and not a property of the fluid itself.
Furthermore, according to some, if as creatures our concepts are all drawn from the creation, it follows from this and divine simplicity that God's attributes can only be spoken of by analogy — since it is not true of any created thing that its properties are identical to its being.
Descartes uses the analogy of rebuilding a house from secure foundations, and extends the analogy to the idea of needing a temporary abode while his own house is being rebuilt.
The analogy given by Dzogchen masters is that one's nature is like a mirror which reflects with complete openness but is not affected by the reflections, or like a crystal ball that takes on the colour of the material on which it is placed without itself being changed.
Later chapters in the books deal with atomic structure ( Mr Tompkins spends time as a conduction electron, returning to consciousness when he is annihilated in an encounter with a positron ) and thermodynamics ( the Professor expounds an analogy between the second law of thermodynamics and the bias towards the casino in gambling before being confounded by a local reversal of the second law through the intervention of Maxwell's demon who has introduced himself to Maud in one of her dreams ).
In an analogy to standard deviation, taking the square root of MSE yields the root mean square error or root mean square deviation ( RMSE or RMSD ), which has the same units as the quantity being estimated ; for an unbiased estimator, the RMSE is the square root of the variance, known as the standard deviation.
Gurdjieff gives an analogy of human life as being organized into two streams: the first stream contains those on the path to self-realization and individuality, and the second stream contains those who exist solely for the purposes of nature's ' involuntary and evolutionary constructs '.
He was dubbed " Dr. K ," ( by analogy with basketball's " Dr. J ", Julius Erving, and also in reference to the letter " K " being the standard abbreviation for strikeout ), which soon became shortened to " Doc ".
Often, it is not the game being played itself which features, but references to it as an analogy of some plot situation.
In reality it is a little more complex, and the analogy is incomplete in that 1-bit sigma-delta converters are these days rather unusual, one reason being that a 1-bit signal cannot be dithered properly: most modern sigma-delta converters are multibit.

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